Tea can you hear me?" A familiar voice called out to Tea, who was passed out on a futon in a small, cozy house. Her eye was covered with a bag of frozen snow peas.

"Y-yugi? Whe-where am I? W-what time is..." Tea was confused by her surroundings, but worse, she was in utter pain. Each of her back muscles ached worse than the last.

"We're at my grandpa's house. I guess you don't remember... You were, well, you were trying to get a look at Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon. He's really protective over that card, Tea - and well, um...he...he hit you." Tears began to well up in Yugi's soft, violet eyes. His fists clenched, wanting so badly to hurt, no, kill Kaiba.

"Oh...Yugi. I'm so sorry for making you worry. I was just so angry after losing to that jerk ass. Our duels were like, well, they were like good vs evil. Good is always supposed to win, you know, Yugi? He just kept winning, though. Evil kept winning." Yugi chuckled as he heard her refer to Kaiba as "evil." It was so easy to think of Kaiba like that, but Yugi knew there were more layers to the teenaged businessman.

"Ya know, Tea, if you wanted to see a Blue Eyes so bad, you could have asked me."

"What do you mean, Yugi?" Tea was all ears.

"I never told you? I guess not, but I should have. I'm really sorry. My grandpa has one. A Blue Eyes White Dragon card. There are only four in the world. Kaiba has 3 and my grandpa has the 4th." Yugi looked down at the floor modestly as he told Tea of his grandpa's rare card. He was never one to brag.

"Oh, Yugi! Could I see it? The rarest card I have is shining friendship! I would love to see

your grandpa's super ultra rare card. Please, please please!" Tea jumped up from the futon Yugi had laid her on.

"Are you sure you feel up to it, Tea? You're still hur-"

"Of course I'm up to it, Yugi! I'm not just saying that. I'm always honest with you. Remember..." Tea took Yugi's hand and put her hand on his.

"The power of friendship" Yugi chimed in, knowing perfectly what Tea was going to say. She was always going on about friendship, which might annoy some, but that just made her more endearing to Yugi.

"You've got it, Yugi!'

"Okay, come on Tea. Be quiet, though, because Joey is still, well, incapacitated at the moment. My grandpa is out getting groceries and he doesn't want me touching his card. Let's be quick, okay?" Tea noticed Joey lying on a couch too small for him, with a bag of frozen colorful bell peppers on his bruised cheek.

"Okay, Yugi." Yugi blushed as Tea smiled and tilted her head innocently.

Yugi, blushing, led Tea by the hand through the door to his grandpa's shop. The building was split into two parts. The shop had a back door which led to the living quarters in which Yugi and his grandpa lived.

"Okay, here it is. Just, be careful, okay?" Yugi removed a beautiful, shining golden box from a shelf behind the shop's counter. Setting the antique down, he opened it to reveal its priceless treasure, the Blue-eyes White Dragon.

"Oh, Yugi. It's absolutely beautiful. Could I hold it?" Tea tilted her chin down and battedher eyelashes.

"Oh..uh...of course, Tea. Just be careful!" Yugi blushed, bewildered by Tea's feminine wiles.

"Yugi, thanks so much."

"For what, Tea?"

"For giving me your grandpa's super rare, priceless card, of course. Now I am all powerful!"

"Hah. Good one, Tea! You can be really funny. Hah hah!" Yugi forced a laugh and a smile.

"Of course I'm joking, Yugi!" Yugi sighed and both Yugi and Tea bubbled with laughter. Each time the laughter died down, the other would laugh, causing an outbreak of laughter.

"Here's your card back, Yugi." Tea handed him back the card while holding eye contact with him

"Thanks, Tea." Yugi was entranced by Tea's beautiful steely cerulean eyes.

"Well, I have to go, Yugi. Thanks for the snow peas! You don't need to walk me home

or anything. Promise." Tea left the store with one final wink and a wave goodbye to Yugi.

Oh, Tea. I wish I had the bravery, no, the balls to ask you out.

Yugi put the card in its rightful place, still staring at the door as if Tea stood there. He closed the box and made sure to return it perfectly to its original spot on the shelf.

4 hours later...

"Yugi! Yuuuugi!" Grandpa Moto's voice was urgent. The most urgent Yugi had ever heard him. Was he having a heart attack? Yugi pressed 9-1-1 on his cell phone and ran to his grandpa, who was in the shop.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! What's wrong?" Sweat dripped down Yugi's face as adrenaline rushed throughout his body.

"Yugi, why is there a shining friendship in the box!" THE box was what Grandpa Moto had always called it. The box that held the most precious card in the world. The Blue-eyes White Dragon.

"Tea..."